Thursday, August 29, 2019
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Halifax Cafe
187 Halifax St, Adelaide.
Featuring two of Adelaide’s own legendary wordsmiths, Heather Taylor-Johnson and Ken Bolton, along with Melbourne maestro, Peter Bakowski.
The Halifax Cafe will be open for meals, refreshments, coffee and more. Come early, stay late.
$5 at the door to pay the poets.
Click here for the Facebook event.
Heather Taylor-Johnson is a novelist, poet and essayist currently trying to flog off an unpublished novel, poetry manuscript, and book of essays. She is a Research Fellow at the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, where she was 2018’s Writer in Residence.
Ken Bolton, ‘loony tune’, a zany, a yo-yo with money—is a curious figure – irascible, intemperate, vituperative, yet devoted apparently to an idea of ‘the Beautiful’, as somehow defined. Lord David Cecil held him to be “the Hulk Hogan des nos jours” – and added “aesthetically speaking.” Ken has published many books, most recently Lonnie’s Lament and Starting At Basheer’s. Forthcoming, on this Saturday, is a book written with Peter Bakowski, The Elsewhere Variations, which is really good.
Peter Bakowski fell in love with the map of the world at the age of six. Peter ended up travelling for seven years, caught a freight train across Montana, lived in a cave on a Mexican island and ate gazelle cooked in stale blood with road builders in the Central Africa Republic. Peter has been writer-in-residence in Rome, Paris, Macau, Suzhou (China), Battery Point, Tasmania; Greenmount, Western Australia and at the Broken Hill Writers Festival. His poems appear in literary magazines worldwide and have been translated into Arabic, Bahasa-Indonesian, Bengali, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin and Polish. In 2015, Editions Doucey of Paris, published a bilingual edition of his Selected Poems: “Le cœur à trois heures du matin.”